Overview:SAS provides business analytics software and services, and is the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. SAS helps organizations anticipate business opportunities, empower action and drive impact. We do this through advanced analytics that turn data about customers, performance, financials and more into meaningful information.

Overview:Actian Corporation enables organizations to transform big data into business value with data management solutions to transact, analyze, and take automated action across their business operations. Actian helps 10,000 customers worldwide take action on their big data with Action Apps, Vectorwise, the analytical database, and Ingres, an independent mission-critical OLTP database.

Overview:Apache Cassandra is an open source distributed database management system designed to handle large amounts of data across many commodity servers, providing high availability with no single point of failure.

Overview:Couchbase is the company behind the Couchbase open source project, a vibrant community of developers and users of Couchbase document-oriented database technology. The flagship product, Couchbase Server, is a packaged version of Couchbase technology that

Overview:DataSift is a leading social data platform, enabling companies to aggregate, filter and extract insights from the billions of public social conversations on Twitter, leading social networks and millions of other sources.

Overview:Greenplum is a data warehousing company and develops database software for business intelligence and data warehousing applications. It offers Greenplum Database that supports multi-terabyte data warehousing demands; and Greenplum Network, a customer and partner portal that delivers instant download access to database products. The company primarily serves telecommunications and banking industries.

Overview:Guavus provides a big data analytics platform integrated with a suite of decisioning applications that enable enterprises and service providers to embed intelligent, timely data driven decisions into agile businesses processes that create right time experiences and innovative new offerings.

Overview:Hadoop is a Free Java software framework that supports distributed applications running on large clusters of commodity computers that process huge amounts of data. It is a top level Apache project and was originally developed to support distribution for Nutch. Hadoop consists of an open source implementation of Google

Overview:MapReduce is a programming model for processing large data sets with a parallel, distributed algorithm on a cluster. MapReduce is the heart of Hadoop. It is this programming paradigm that allows for massive scalability across hundreds or thousands of servers in a Hadoop cluster. MapReduce libraries have been written in many programming languages, with different levels of optimization. A popular open-source implementation is Apache Hadoop. The name MapReduce originally referred to the proprietary Google technology but has since been genericized.

Overview:MongoDB (from humongous) is reinventing data management and powering big data as the leading NoSQL database. MongoDB empowers organizations to be more agile and scalable. It enables new types of applications, better customer experience, faster time to market and lower costs.

Overview:Opera Solutions is a leader in applying advanced analytics to Big Data challenges. The firm uses a combination of analytics, technology, large-scale data management, and human expertise to serve large and mid-sized clients in a number of sectors, including financial services, investment firms, consumer goods, retail, manufacturing, distribution and government.

Overview:PostgreSQL, often simply "Postgres", is an open-source object-relational database management system (ORDBMS) with an emphasis on extensibility and standards-compliance. It is released under the PostgreSQL License, a free/open source software license.

Overview:Splunk is a leading global provider of operational intelligence software used to monitor, report and analyze real-time machine data as well as terabytes of historical data_located on-premise or in the cloud. Splunk helps to improve service levels, reduce IT operations costs, mitigate security risks, and drive new levels of operational visibility.

Overview:Teradata Corporation is a global leader in data warehousing and analytic technologies that make smart companies smarter. Teradata provides the most knowledgeable and experienced consulting professionals, highest performing technology, industry-leading innovation, and a world-class network of customers and partners to make faster, smarter decisions that give our customers a decided competitive advantage.